Quote Originally Posted by coffeecat View Post
How are you attempting to mount? In the live environment, if you double-click on the icon for your root partition in Places > Computer it should mount read/write. If that's what you're doing and it's mounting read only, it sounds as though there may be more damage than just a missing fstab - perhaps the journal is corrupted.

This is how you do it from the terminal in the live environment, assuming your root partition is sda6 - adjust appropriately if not.

Code:
sudo mkdir /media/UbuntuHD
.. to make the mountpoint. Use any name you want - UbuntuHD is what popped into my head first. Then...

Code:
sudo mount /dev/sda6 /media/UbuntuHD
That should mount read/write by default.
When double clicking whenever i'm in Live, it doesn't mount as RW, just RO for some reason, and thats been when i've tried doing other things...

I'll try your suggestions now, so thank you.

Is there anything I could do without the commands?

I'm just hoping that the install didn't mess up anything further.